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Tan, Hwee Hwee. Foreign Bodies. Persea Bks. 1999. 278p. ISBN 0-89255-236-0. $24. (LJ 3/15/99) GROWING UP IN SINGAPORE ... Hwee Hwee Tan's first novel, Foreign Bodies, features the coming of [...]

Kirchner, Bharti. Sharmila's Book. Dutton. 1999. 296p. ISBN 0-525-94368-4. $24.95. (LJ 2/15/99) INDIAN MATCHMAKING ... Bharti Kirchner's Sharmila's Book tells the story of an arranged marriage, though with a twist. [...]

TOURETTE'S SYNDROME SLEUTH ... Lionel Essrog, hero of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, is seeking nothing: not the mother who left him at St. Vincent's Home for Boys when he was [...]

INNOCENCE REGAINED ... Like Saffie (above), Rosie, the teenaged American protagonist of Lily King's deft and moving first novel, The Pleasing Hour, has come to Paris to escape her own [...]

SEARCHING FOR ONE'S SELF ... Karin Blom, the young Norwegian narrator of Linn Ullmann's exquisite and beautifully translated first novel, Before You Sleep, is seeking not innocence but experience, especially [...]

DARK PAST, EMPTY PRESENT ... 'Something more than a gesture life' is the goal of 'Doc' Hata, the polite but unreliable narrator of Chang-rae Lee's eerily calm yet powerful A [...]

LOVE BETWEEN EXILES ... In Nancy Huston's hauntingly elegant U.S. debut novel, The Mark of the Angel, it is 1957, and young Saffie has left her native Germany, with its [...]

Russell, Paul. The Coming Storm. St. Martin's. 1999. 371p. ISBN 0-312-20514-7. $24.95. (LJ 7/99) HALF THE JOY of reading fiction is in the discovery. Whether a reader is looking for [...]

Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind. St. Martin's. 1999. 371p. ISBN 0-312-20514-7. $24.95 (LJ 7/99) HALF THE JOY of reading fiction is in the discovery. Whether a reader [...]

Brown, Carrie. Lamb in Love. Algonquin. 1999. 386p. ISBN 1-56512-203-8. $21.95. (LJ 2/15/99) HALF THE JOY of reading fiction is in the discovery. Whether a reader is looking for books [...]

Holleran, Andrew. In September, the Light Changes. Hyperion, dist. by Little, Brown. 1999. 306p. ISBN 0-7868-6461-3. $23.95. (LJ 6/1/99) HALF THE JOY of reading fiction is in the discovery. Whether [...]

Bayard, Louis. Fool's Errand. Alyson Bks., dist. by Consortium. 1999. 486p. ISBN 1-55583-494-4. pap. $12.95. HALF THE JOY of reading fiction is in the discovery. Whether a reader is looking [...]

Highlights the Canadian Library Association's 39th annual conference held June 7 to 12, 1984 in Toronto. Topics discussed; Keynote speakers.

Reports on the meetings of American Library Association (ALA), Association for Library Information Science Education and the Urban Libraries Council from January 5-12, 1984 in Washington D.C. Campaigning for the post of treasurer of ALA; Reaction of ALA Council watchers on the general lack of debate on the issue of granting members greater access to ALA financial information and accountability.

Presents the address delivered to the Junior Members Round Table during the 102 Annual Conference of the American Library Association held in Los Angeles, California, on June 25-30, 1983. Recollections of experience as a librarian; Historical issues concerning librarians and library science. INSETS: Dynamo or Dinosaur? by Shirley Havens.;LILMIG's 'Guidelines', by John Berry.;The ALA-TV Conference '83, by Karl Nyren.;ALA Officers and Awards.

Presents highlights of the 101st Annual Conference of the American Library Association (ALA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania held July 10-15, 1982. Debate on the budget of the ALA; Categories of expenditures of the ALA; Recommendation on the elimination of the Office for Library Outreach Services and the Office for Research.

Discusses the debates at the 97th Annual Conference of American Library Association (ALA) regarding the implications of California's Proposition 13, by which the voters virtually eliminated the tax base that support municipal services in the state. Reaction of ALA leaders to Proposition 13; Long-term effects of the tax revolt on California libraries; Issue of fees to library users.

Reports on issues discussed at the Centennial Conference of the American Library Association (ALA) in 1976. Changes in the ALA budget; ALA pay increase; Names of ALA officers; ALA awards; Plans of ALA committees; Library building trends; Microform catalogs; Databases; Urban library aid; ALA fair; Names of speakers. INSETS: ALA Officers and Awards.;Women Library Workers: The Organizing Drive..

AN ECCENTRIC COMEDY ... In Marian Keyes's first novel, Watermelon, Claire is a remarkable narrator with a sense of humor and gift for storytelling. Claire's husband doesn't want to upset [...]

Simpson, Thomas William. The Caretaker. Bantam. 1998. 423p. ISBN 0-553-10052-1 $22.95. (LJ 1/98) DREAM WORLD CORRUPTED.... In Thomas William Simpson's The Caretaker, if something sounds too good to be true, [...]

James, Bill. Roses, Roses. Norton. 1998. 204p. ISBN 0-393-04637-0 $23. FLASHBACKS OF A MURDER ... Bill James's Roses, Roses, a dark British police procedural, begins and ends with murder. Detective [...]

Fforde, Katie. Stately Pursuits. St. Martin's. 1998. 280p. ISBN 0-312-18668-1. $22.95 (LJ 6/1/98) AN ENGLISH RESTORATION ... In Katie Fforde's Stately Pursuits, Hetty Longden is suffering from a broken heart [...]

Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd. St. Martin's 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-312-18008-X. $23.95. CHEYENNE BRIDES ... Jim Fergus's first novel, One Thousand White Women: The [...]

Highlights the 94th meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) held in San Francisco, California. Statements of the outgoing President Edward G. Holley to the ALA Council; Reduction of the membership with the increase of dues; Proposals for the innovation of library programs.

Offers reviews of five sleepers, books that are recommended by word of mouth. `Tree of Heaven,' by R.C. Binstock; `Electricity,' by Victoria Glendinning; `Mysterious Skin,' by Scott Heim; `City of Bones,' by Martha Wells; `Meeting Lily,' by Sarah Woodhouse.

Recommends several sleepers. `Straight as an Arrow,' by Celestine Sibley; `Copy Kat,' by Karen Kijewski; `The Garden Club,' by Muriel Resnick Jackson; `A Stillness in Bethlehem,' by Jane Haddam; `Probable Cause,' by Grif Stockley.

Evaluates five sleepers. Includes `A World the Color of Salt,' by Noreen Ayres, `Flight,' by Fran Dorf, `Flying in Place,' by Susan Palwick, `Dying Cheek to Cheek,' by Diane K. Shah, and `Every Crooked Nanny,' by Kathy Trocheck.

Recommends five sleeper books. `Bonneville Blue,' by Joan Chase; `Thereafter Johnnie,' by Carolivia Herron; `Cowboys Are My Weakness,' by Pam Houston; `Duck and Cover,' by Brenda Peterson; `Because of You,' by Lisa Walker.